2010 Tesla Roadster 2.5, Skykomish, Washington, September 2010.

“If you like something, if it works, and if the ethos behind its creation is palpably present in its physical manifestation, then you’re going to say what you mean. The Tesla is not a super-golfcart squeezed into a Lotus frame, coated with carbon fiber, and passed off as a half-baked novelty. It’s also not the messiah come to cleanse our Petroleum Gomorrah with electric fire.”

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2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, taillight detail, La Jolla, 2009.

“Hyundai’s gamble is that the altered fascia and fancy taillights will both alert your friends and neighbors of your hybrid-driving status as well as be significantly more economical to manufacture. “Fluidic Sculpture,” as applied to the regular Sonata, involved a sinewy shape with rounded edges and creased accents like a pressed pair of pants, flowing around the car up to the front and being drawn in by the heavily curved headlights into a focal point at the grille. The grille is also where the Hybrid is most divergent, losing the organic, chromed, bi-level gills for a heavy, sporty maw. I say sporty because it can’t help but resemble the current Mitsubishi corporate face writ large on the Lancer Evo. The chrome’s moved north to the hood, in the form of an wing-like accent, and in its place a heavy black beam bisects the thatched grille covering. The headlights’ shape are also altered, becoming more angular. Out back, not much has changed except the taillights, which are a cool smidgen of kit evocative of an atom and worthy of a few seconds of close contemplation.”

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2011 Hyundai Sonata Turbo, La Jolla, 2010.

“Back when engine management computers had less processing power than a chimpanzee trying to eat an abacus, 274 horses routed through unequal length half-shafts would have resulted in a smoking hulk residing in a ditch. Technology is an amazing thing, and you’re hearing that directly from the lips of an avowed Luddite. And all this wizardry works very well in the Sonata. You’ll never mistake it for a Honda S2000, but it took corners with admirably little lean and no drama from the driven wheels. While understeer inevitably popped up when pushed, you won’t ever be autocrossing it, so who cares?”

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Offenhauser on the lawn at Pebble Beach, August, 2009.

Locomobile on the lawn at Pebble Beach, August, 2009.

“Going Off” - 2010 Sonoma Historics, Infineon Raceway.

“[T]he emotion in McCabe’s body language, a tinge of disappointment but mostly a professional and composed resignation, really come through. It’s surprising to realize that even with such interesting cars, it’s the human drama in racing that pulls you in.”

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“Plymouth” - 2010 Sonoma Historics, Infineon Raceway.

“Quoth Sir Sterling Moss, ‘Movement is tranquility.’ Particularly when that movement is frozen in time, catching a beautiful car skillfully handled to within a fraction of its capabilities, pitting the immutable laws of physics against the timeless drive to win at any cost.”

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